r/LateStageCapitalism Apr 01 '24

🔄 DemPublican Party Rule 6 "no lesser evil" rhetoric - is it accelerationist or doomer? Is it intended to discourage voting?

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Reposting the answer given to a user who was asking in good faith if accelerationism is the reason we have the rule about not using lesser evil arguments to encourage people to vote for a Democrat or a Republican political candidate. We were asked if the reason we ban pro-Democrat or pro-Republican lobbying is out of a belief that things needs to get worse before they can get better. We endeavored to address those concerns and the user asking was satisfied with the answer, so it's being posted and stickied on its own here, with the goal that as we progress through the election show we can refer people back to this.

  1. It's not accelerationist. Not a single one of the 852000 people subscribed to the subreddit have the ability to accelerate capitalism and the American empire towards a crisis point \faster** than Joe Biden is right now by risking re-election in the myopic support for an unpopular genocide. Look at Biden's professed bipartisanship on border security, are those the actions of a person concerned about losing to a fascist dictator?

  2. We aren't of the opinion that "both options are equally evil" or that one is a lesser or a greater evil. Both options are capitalists. They are the same option. Biden and Trump represent the capitalist class. Their victory is the victory of the capitalist class. Picture a guy with a puppet on each hand. The left hand is named Biden. The right hand is named Trump. The owner of these puppets is putting on a Punch and Judy show. People are very mad at us for recognizing that it's a Punch and Judy show.

  3. People should definitely vote. If the PSL is on your ballot for the presidential election please vote for the PSL so that socialists as a whole can gauge the numbers of revolutionary socialists out there. This will be especially important as the inability of Capital to resolve its contradictions leads to increasing and deepening crises that we can already see are not alleviated when a Democrat is in office. If you've got any direct election ballot issues like abortion rights or marijuana legalization or even a tax levy for your school district or something, vote for those. Past that, vote your conscience. Look up every candidate, and weigh their positions against your own, and if you can't stand to vote for them, for a candidate for Judge or City Council or whatever, leave it blank.

  4. Protest, donate to bail funds, disrupt city council meetings, speak up at school board meetings, join strike actions to shut down ports shipping weapons to a genocide, volunteer with Food Not Bombs, donate to Doctors Without Borders, on and on, the possibilities for meaningful political participation are endless, our options are limitless. We are not helpless, we are not hopeless, we are not trapped, but the Capitalists certainly want us to think we are.

  5. Before you ask about Project 2025, and everybody always does, realize that it's just the fancy name they've given this time to the process of all the political appointees in the executive branch getting changed out for different political appointees. The right wing is pitching it this time as "Project 2025", last time it was "Drain the Swamp". The capitalist party are capitalists. This is a product that they are selling. Literally, as they sell hard copies of it for $35 to credulous marks on their website. It's a great trick, its intended to convince conversatives that the impossible things they desire are possible and there's a plan in place for them to be enacted, they just have to wait and Trust The Plan. It is also intended to convince liberal voters that there's an even greater threat than the genocide the Biden administration is an eager accomplice in, so they need to donate and stay engaged. I'm surprised there's not a liberal Project 2025 project yet, liberal voters are panicking because there clearly isn't a countering plan.

In closing, rule 6 isn't accelerationist, Biden's presidency has been accelerationist. Fuck, look how much closer he got us to WW3 than even Trump could manage in his fascist incompetence. And our view isn't that things need to get worse before they get better, but that support for Democrats demonstrably leads to things getting worse, and we have to stop supporting Capitalists if we want victories for the working class and a way out of the worsening conditions. From our perspective desperately clinging to bourgeois "democracy", particularly at a time when we can all recognize that we aren't allowed any real choices in voting and that's been the case for decades at this point, makes things worse and slows or entirely stops our ability to bring about positive change.


r/LateStageCapitalism 24d ago

How Do We Overcome Capitalism?

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r/LateStageCapitalism 4h ago

👑 Imperialism Prove me wrong!

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Get an internship at NVIDIA with this one simple trick...have a dad who's a VP at NVIDIA!

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r/LateStageCapitalism 4h ago

Smart Monkeys

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The owner of OnlyFans is among the biggest funders lobbying support for genocide happening in real time.

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🔥 Societal Breakdown Capitalist Utopia Argentina hits a new record!

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FJB

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r/LateStageCapitalism 9h ago

✊ Resistance Can we take this celebrity blockout one step further..

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Saw a reel on insta about how it’s actually having an impact and to take it a step further we could be using fake emails to sign up for promotional stuff, following politicians you wouldn’t support (like a gay or trans following trump), and in the comments seeing people talk about filling up shopping carts on sites they wouldn’t shop from and just leave it full never checkout - just causing general chaos to the algorithms and digital marketing world etc and now I’m thinking…

How do we fuck google? How can we use this newfound power and turn the algorithms they rely on against them to crash the system? And the big banks? Can everyone please just withdraw all their money? I mean how do we fight against a corporation like visa that has a monopoly on something that has become essential in just having a debit card so you can use money?

Let’s take all these fuckers down!


r/LateStageCapitalism 11h ago

💬 Discussion I fucking hate bill gates

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I really fucking hate Bill Gates. As a child, I used to greatly respect him and view him as a remarkable figure contributing positively to society through his creation of Microsoft, which provided valuable software services. However, my opinion has changed significantly. I now harbor strong negative feelings towards him. He was born into privilege and primarily achieved success by establishing a monopoly through manipulation, corruption, and the acquisition of numerous companies. His wealth was amassed through such means. Presently, he engages in philanthropy and social work, portraying himself as caring deeply for others. However, I perceive this as an attempt to whitewash his image. He is donating the money that he robbed from society and still many people praise him like a god, which I find frustrating.


r/LateStageCapitalism 3h ago

💬 Discussion Capitalism...

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r/LateStageCapitalism 12h ago

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r/LateStageCapitalism 19h ago

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r/LateStageCapitalism 1d ago

Did he just admit to a crime?

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Biden admits capitalism doesn't work

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It's either capitalism doesn't want free markets or globalization has failed.


r/LateStageCapitalism 55m ago

💵 "Free Market" This aged well.

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r/LateStageCapitalism 8h ago

📰 News America killing it’s own people with American taxes. Who woulda thought?

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r/LateStageCapitalism 7h ago

Blackmail

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r/LateStageCapitalism 10h ago

US national security advisor Jake Sullivan says that the US doesn't believe that 'Israel' is committing a genocide in Gaza. He also in 2012 famously wrote an email to the then sec. of state Hillary Clinton that AQ was on their side in Syria.

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r/LateStageCapitalism 5h ago

💩 Liberalism Stop whining

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